Chennai, June 28 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Coastal Police and the Indian Coast Guard have intensified patrolling over the Dhanushkodi and Rameswaram areas following intelligence reports of more Sri Lankan Tamils moving into Indian shores after the financial situation in the island nation plummeted. While the Tamil Nadu government has taken a political decision to […]
TN police crackdown on drug traffickers in state
Chennai, June 27 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu police have commenced a crackdown on drug traffickers who were earlier on the radar for drug pedaling and who had served jail term. The state police chief, C. Sylendra Babu, has ordered a crackdown on the drug peddlers in the state, an official said. This is following several […]
Protest in Kulasekharam, TN after suicide of a person alleging custodial torture.
Chennai, June 27 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu police which has drawn flak after two back-to-back custodial deaths in April and May 2022 is now again cornered after allegations that a person was tortured in custody by the Kanniyakumari police consumed poison and died. Opposition political parties including AIADMK, BJP, and human rights organizations have said that […]
TN police on trail of couple who cheated job aspirants of more than Rs 2 crore
Chennai, June 26 (BPNS) A special team is on the trail of a husband, and wife couple who had cheated several job aspirants of around Rs 2 crore promising them government jobs. Police are on the lookout for Dhanya and her husband Karunanidhi from Coimbatore. Police sources told IANS that the woman posing as a […]
TN police commence probe after Bangladesh citizen arrested with a fake passport 
Chennai, June 26( IANS) Tamil Nadu special police team has commenced a probe on a fake passport network in state after a Bangladesh citizen was arrested in Chennai with a fake passport on Friday. A special team is constituted by the Tamil Nadu police to ascertain whether more foreign nationals are in the state and […]
Coimbatore police for DNA test on PwD woman, children to track the perpetrators
Chennai, June 24 (BPNS) Coimbatore Rural district police have registered a case of rape and sexual assault on unidentified persons who have raped, sexually assaulted, and impregnated a Person with Disability (PwD). Sources in the police said that the woman had given birth twice and the police are ascertaining whether the woman was raped by […]
TN police commence investigation on fake death certificate in Villupuram
Chennai, June 23 (BPNS) The Villupuram district police superintendent has directed the local police to commence an investigation in a case related to a fake death certificate. Kuppachi (76 ) is hale and hearty and healthy also but the records submitted by her grandson for registering a land showed that she had died on December […]
TN Police seeks legal opinion in mid air molestation charge
Chennai, June 22 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu police are seeking legal opinion over a complaint filed by a Non-Resident Indian (NRI) woman against a doctor from Chennai based out of Dubai that he had groped her on a flight. The incident occurred on Saturday but the United States-based woman who is now in Tamil Nadu did […]
Puducherry UT to have high-resolution CCTV cameras installed at all points
Puducherry, June 22 (BPNS) The Union Territory of Puducherry will have high-resolution CCTV cameras at all important points. The Home Minister of UT of Puducherry, A. Namassiyam said that installing high-resolution CCTV cameras across the territory will help reduce the crimes and that police can keep a tab on the movement of history sheeters with […]
Senior IPS officer removed as Vigilance chief got new posting
Thiruvananthapuram, June 21 (BPNS) Ousted vigilance director MR Ajithkumar got a new posting. To accommodate him, the state government created an ex-cadre post which is equivalent in status and responsibility to the cadre post of additional director general of police (headquarters). Ajithkumar has been appointed as additional director general of police (protection of civil rights). […]